Medical Management of Pregnancy Complicated by Diabetes - Paperback

by Werner (Editor)

Pregnancy complicated by diabetes is a medical challenge that can be minimized through a program of expert protocols and patient partnerships. This revised edition presents a complete package of these protocols that can help produce healthy infants in pregnancies complicated by type 1, type 2, and gestational diabetes.

Back Jacket

Pregnancy complicated by diabetes is a medical challenge that can be minimized through a program of expert protocols and patient partnerships. This newly revised edition presents a complete package of these protocols that can help produce healthy infants in pregnancies complicated by type 1, type 2, and gestational diabetes. Topics include: --Pre and Inter-pregnancy counceling, assessment, and management --Contraception in diabetes and prediabetes --Nutrition management of preexisting diabetes --Risk assessment, fetal surveillance and delivery in prenancies complicated by diabetes --Neonatal care of infants of mothers with diabetes --Management of gestational diabetes --Diagnostic testing and fetal surveillance --Use of insulin in pregnancy and assessment of glycemic control --Postpartum concerns for women with diabetes

Author Biography

Erika Werner, MD, MS is Associate Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology in the Alpert Medical School of Brown University Division of Maternal Fetal Medicine and Associate Professor of Epidemiology in the School of Public Health, Brown University. She is also the Maternal Fetal Medicine Fellowship Director at Women & Infants Hospital and the NICHD Maternal Fetal Medicine Network alternate PI. Her areas of expertise include diabetes in pregnancy, preeclampsia and preterm birth and cost-effective analysis.